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Sorry Judy, Laurence, I got carried away and wrote my last post before reading Ken's, who I think hits the nail on the head.
My own thinking is that if you don't like it, delete, don't read it. We cannot pretend we are 'forced' to listen to what any writer has to say. I am sincere about my poetry as everyone else is; and it was only after the hooha that Alison told me of Lorca's Duende essay being her own equivalent to the Cauldron of Poesy text I have as my own poetic touchstone.
It was only after some textual theatrics we got passed the gender-race-blah blah blah stuff of one human being only wanting a bit of basic poetic respect from another. Now I know Al reconciled her own way into whatever Segias Well s/he, her mind, works at, by finding a way in through Lorca's duende essay, and as two poets we know where we stand, the bottom line poetic. Mine's Amergin and hers is Lorca.
What about you Judy and Laurence, are there any equivalent texts you have as a touchstone.
(no need to answer. I will respect it if you want to remain disliking me, but hate is a negative energy and does not lead to poetic richness and success)
Sincerely
Kevin Desmond Swords - Swords is my mother's maiden name. My elsdest of four sisters still uses hers, Mary Desmond - have a look at her work. She is an artist in Rome
http://www.marydesmond.net/
My wife, the Indian Malaysian poet Susan Abraham, who did suffered terrible bullying online when we first met in person after meeting one another on the guardian books blog; from a self declared feminist and some middle aged male boors - has is in Abu Dhabi airport as I write, in transit waiting to catch her flight to Kuala Lumpur, from where she will jet to Tanzania in a week or so, and have her third attempt at conquering Africa's highest mountain.
Both other times she never made it, never made it to Gilman's point on the first, and the second only three hours away; both times brought down in an ambulance, as is the procedure for anyone on the mountain who doesn't make the peak.
This woman is the one I love.
http://susanabraham-booksblog.typepad.com/
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